The Unofficial Weymouth & Portland 2012 Olympic Blog

Plans have been revealed to close the Weymouth esplanade from 10am to 10pm each day during the Olympics unless you are the holder of a so called ‘golden ticket’ allowing access, enforced by ‘hard checkpoints’ (Baghdad anyone?). Since the announcement of Weymouth being an olympic host there was always rumors that something like this would [...]

The Dorset echo has reported that the initial construction work for the new Weymouth Eye attraction has begun. 7 Metre deep foundations for the tower are expected to be started in January, spokesman for Merlin Entertainments (the private company behind the attraction) has commented that the view from the height of the tower (53m) is [...]

In one years time the Olympic games will be kicking off, mainly in London and locally at the Weymouth & Portland Sailing Academy. The official spectating location has also today been confirmed as the Nothe fort area of Weymouth, with presumably some sort of park and ride facility to handle the estimated 4’000 spectators per [...]

The council have approved the lease for the proposed Weymouth-Eye attraction. The originally reported story at the Dorset Echo states it is hoped this new attraction, planned to be ready to go in time for the Olympic sailing events will generate an extra 1 million in income for Weymouth. Although I couldn’t comment on the boost [...]

The Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy will from next week (June 6th) be hosting the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta, from their schedule this doesn’t appear to be the official Olympic test event, that is in July it appears. Some of the World’s highest profile elite sailors and windsurfers as well as Paralympians are already on-site [...]